For Zain Burgess’ upcoming solo show “Dead Calm Centre,” Zain shows us new painting, sculpture, and video to hypothesize a material and ideological collapse in a vast landscape of semiotic debris. He shows us a video of a decade of action films edited into a sequential explosion and installed on the television screens in an electronics store to an unknowing consumer audience. In another work he creates a sculptural time monument out of pallet wood, homemade beeswax candles, and a 1968 Mustang car hood. He continues this reduction of form by erasing all the land off of a national geographic world map, leaving blue ocean amongst blurry white amnesia; this is mirrored by large black monochromes made from black pigment slathered with beeswax on a tent canvas.